Rheological behavior of PMVE-MA aqueous solution with metallic cations

Abstract

The rheological properties of aqueous solutions of poly(methyl vinyl ether-co-maleic anhydride) (PMVE-MA) upon addition of metallic cations at different pH values were investigated. Sol-gel transition and shear-thickening phenomena at moderate shear rate were observed upon increasing the amount of metallic cations, especially for cupric cation. At certain molar ratio (f_gel) of added cupric cations to carboxyl groups in PMVE-MA, the system became gel-like, and the storage modulus (G′) and loss modulus (G′′) were parallel and exhibited a power-law dependence on the frequency, which is consistent with Winter’s hypothesis of determining the gel point of a crosslinking system. The shear-thickening behavior depends on f_gel, pH, metallic valence, and temperature.

Keywords

poly(methyl vinyl ether-co-maleic anhydride) / shear-thickening / gel point / rheology

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledged the “111” Project (Grant No. B08021), Shanghai Pujiang Talent Project 08PJ14036 for support of this work.

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